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Remarque The Night in Lisbon...
...NIGHT IN LISBON by Erich Maria Remarque. 244 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...time is 1942. Two shell-shocked survivors of the Nazi terror meet in Lisbon and talk the night away. They are strangers, but they understand each other quickly because they have a common latter-day heritage "that was as much a part of German culture as Goethe and Schiller." They both know how to alter passports, how to dress inconspicuously to put off the police, how to conceal a vial of poison or perhaps a razor blade as a last remedy if they should fall into the hands of the Gestapo. The man named Schwarz describes a common enough European...
Remarque, The Light in Lisbon...
Some purists say that the heart of the fado still lies beyond Amália, beyond Lisbon's boulevards, and deep in its slums. There illiterate workers still exchange quatrains of their own invention. Aristocrats repeat them over murky wine and grilled sardines, and eventually the word reaches Amália. Then, full of fire and ashes, sorrow and sin, she sings...